Overrunning in a sentence

Is this not what has happened with cost overruns, calendar overruns, ministerial mouths overrunning, and all the while overrunning the patient good faith of honest Guyanese?

Players control a team of researchers trying to stop four pandemics from overrunning the world.

A spokesperson for National Highways said: “We apologise for overrunning roadworks on the southbound A12 this morning between Stanway (J26) and Marks Tey (25).

Yesterday’s proceedings started later than expected with a previous sentencing overrunning amid the traffic chaos caused by flooding in Oxford.

A battalion of insurgents laid ambush on our troops and the natives, with the intention of overrunning the town.

Pashinyan has refused to step down, defending the peace agreement as a painful but necessary move that prevented Azerbaijan from overrunning the entire Nagorno-Karabakh region.

He didn’t pimp the hit because he was afraid of overrunning Tucker or because he thought he’d be thrown out at third; he did it because he thought he’d hit a home run.

But the contribution of central midfielders Steven N'Zonzi and Ever Banega cannot be understated as they controlled the middle of the park, overrunning Fellaini, Nemanja Matic and Paul Pogba when he came on.

Earlier this week, Taliban insurgents assaulted the provincial capital, also named Farah, and almost came close to overrunning it.

The Buhari administration often claims to have technically defeated and sufficiently degraded Boko Haram as a fighting force, but the terrorist sect is still capable of mounting soft target attacks, abducting school kids and overrunning military bases.

The Russians were described as “overrunning the country in a few days”.

American and British forces occupied the western and southern regions, preventing Soviet forces from completely overrunning and controlling the country.

Bin Laden helped cement his alliance with the Taliban by sending several hundred Afghan Arab fighters along to help the Taliban kill between five and six thousand Hazaras overrunning the city.

Dear (2005), p. 254 For the first night of the offensive, Montgomery planned for four infantry divisions of XXX Corps to advance on a convert front to the Oxalic Line, overrunning the forward Axis defences.

Engelhardt 1908, pp. 3–18 These animals multiplied beyond the settler's expectations, often overrunning pastures and extending well-beyond the domains of the missions.

He said these resulted in a swift overrunning of the entirety of South-Eastern Britain, and the foundation of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

However, the walls did not prevent the Ottoman army from overrunning the city in 1645 after just two months' siege.

Invention of the fixed-spool or spinning reel solved the problem of backlash, since the reel had no rotating spool capable of overrunning and fouling the line.

Specifically, it aims to ensure that operations are not disrupted due to the asset (or parts of the asset) overrunning limits of planned lifespan or below quality levels.

The IDF maintains the US-trained forces will soon be capable of "overrunning small IDF outposts and isolated Israeli communities" in the event of a conflict.